On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 08:51, Ani Joshi wrote: > > > On 2 Dec 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > Absolutely. /usr/include/{linux,asm} shouldn't be symlinks but > > directories shipped with glibc. > > What? glibc doesn't have those directories, those should *indeed* be > symlinks to /usr/src/linux/include/linux and /usr/src/linux/include/asm > respectively.
No. Read it up on lkml. Linus has spoken very clearly on the topic. Someone who found it out the hard way posted here not so long ago. > This is how most distro's do it (or at least used to do it). Any distro that still does it is severely broken IMHO. > Since when did glibc have those directories? I don't know about upstream but the Debian libc6-dev package has shipped them for as long as I've been using it. PS: Of course anyone _can_ make them symlinks if they know what they're doing. But you're on your own then. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert